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Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence, 24.09 – 16.11.2019, FUTURA, Prague

In their large scale solo presentation at FUTURA, Gawęda and Kulbokaitė, explore artistic production through collaboration, decay and search for aberrant, media that lend themselves to creating speculative environments. The singular topology of the exhibition space which plays host to this fragmented narrative underlies the boundaries between public and private, internal and external, self and environment as increasingly permeable.

Curator: Caroline Krzyszton.

If one is to describe the inner landscapes it is always in terms such as this: monkey-brown, fish-grey, a string of infected circles above unwholesome ground, perhaps the skin of a grave. The limits of language are the limits of the world, so there is a naturally occurring adjustment to the ensconced personality in exchange for this view, including a certain amount of unusualities in perspective. But the sun of the mind rises a ribbon at a time too.
Mine usually springs from a short elliptical colonnade and a large charis paddock populated by spiked grass Salsabiils beneath a sign marked 791 in something like Persian script leading the way in. Further along winding paths a Columbarium marks a squalid catalog of mistakes, my library of poor choices and slights constrained in lead boxes to better restrain their odious contents. On their internment they became discoloured, first turning green, then purple, before black as parts bulge from sockets. Other wretched parts bloat, protrude and finally swell each form burst open with foul-smelling gases. It was best not to touch these. Further on, things which could not be buried or burned – such as ideas or hopes dashed short – are put into charnel ground and left out for amorphous blends of jackals and hyenas, tigerbears, vultures and ravens. A land of total openness and freedom. Festoons of wet intestines hang low from the trees here, above beds of viper plants littered with the shards and nubs of femurs, patellas, tusks.
Mals blow through hrátsis like weather. Sometimes they cluster and became a thick black bonerinse of a mist. The worst is when they take the faces most beloved to hráči beyond the Dyad. Mothers and fathers, women once loved and children unborn but not forgotten. All can appear suddenly and tear you up enough to be spat back through the colonnade.

from RYXPER1126AE by Ella Plevin

Leave no trace I , 2018 Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter 140 x 120 x 40 cm

Leave no trace I , 2018

Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter
140 x 120 x 40 cm

Hexanol I, II and III , 2019 Steel, meadow.

Hexanol I, II and III , 2019

Steel, meadow.

Hexanol I, II and III, 2019. Steel, meadow.

Hexanol I, II and III, 2019.

Steel, meadow.

Hexanol III, 2019 Steel, meadow. Enclosure I, 2019 Text on LED; 50 x 9,6 x 1,5 cm TEXT: With the persecution of the folk healer, women were expropriated from a patri­mony of empirical knowledge, regarding herbs and healing remedies, that they had accu­mulated and transmitted from generation to generation, its loss paving the way for a new form of enclosure. This was the rise of professional medicine, which erected in front of the "lower classes" a wall of unchallengeable scientific knowledge, unaffordable and alien, despite its curative pretenses.

Hexanol III, 2019

Steel, meadow.


Enclosure I, 2019

Text on LED; 50 x 9,6 x 1,5 cm

TEXT: With the persecution of the folk healer, women were expropriated from a patri­mony of empirical knowledge, regarding herbs and healing remedies, that they had accu­mulated and transmitted from generation to generation, its loss paving the way for a new form of enclosure. This was the rise of professional medicine, which erected in front of the "lower classes" a wall of unchallengeable scientific knowledge, unaffordable and alien, despite its curative pretenses.


SULK, 2018 Video with sound, 15:13.

SULK, 2018

Video with sound, 15:13.

Young Girl I Did Love You Once, 2019 Polished steel, RYXPER 1126AE (produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.) 1,3 x 1,3 x 19 cm

Young Girl I Did Love You Once, 2019
Polished steel, RYXPER 1126AE (produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.)
1,3 x 1,3 x 19 cm

RYXPER 1126AE 04:60, 2019 Industrial aroma diffuser mechanism, programmed at 04:60 interval stainless steel, RYXPER 1126AE (produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.).

RYXPER 1126AE 04:60, 2019

Industrial aroma diffuser mechanism, programmed at 04:60 interval stainless steel, RYXPER 1126AE (produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.).

rūta , 2019 Sound 6:52.

rūta , 2019

Sound 6:52.

Leave no trace I , 2018 Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter 140 x 120 x 40 cm

Leave no trace I , 2018

Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter
140 x 120 x 40 cm


Leave no trace I , 2018 Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter 140 x 120 x 40 cm

Leave no trace I , 2018

Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter
140 x 120 x 40 cm

Leave no trace I , 2018 Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter 140 x 120 x 40 cm

Leave no trace I , 2018

Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter
140 x 120 x 40 cm

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence [exhibition view]

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence
[exhibition view]

an object of reverence ( I-V) , 2019 Lab glass, stopper, RYXPER 1126AE (produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.)

an object of reverence ( I-V) , 2019
Lab glass, stopper, RYXPER 1126AE (produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.)

Infinite shades and intensities of green, violet, purple, brown, red. Vegetable colors and shadows. Infinite silences. , 2019 Framed documents, various dimensions

Infinite shades and intensities of green, violet, purple, brown, red. Vegetable colors and shadows. Infinite silences. , 2019
Framed documents, various dimensions

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence [exhibition view]

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence
[exhibition view]

For when I look at you for a moment, then it is no longer possible for me to speak; my tongue has snapped, at once a subtle fire has stolen beneath my flesh, I see nothing with my eyes, my ears hum, sweat pours from me, a trembling seizes me all over, I am greener than grass, and it seems to me that I am a little short of dying. (II) , 2019. Spruce wood, polished steel, deformed lab glass

For when I look at you for a moment, then it is no longer possible for me to speak; my tongue has snapped, at once a subtle fire has stolen beneath my flesh, I see nothing with my eyes, my ears hum, sweat pours from me, a trembling seizes me all over, I am greener than grass, and it seems to me that I am a little short of dying. (II)
, 2019. Spruce wood, polished steel, deformed lab glass

For when I look at you for a moment, then it is no longer possible for me to speak; my tongue has snapped, at once a subtle fire has stolen beneath my flesh, I see nothing with my eyes, my ears hum, sweat pours from me, a trembling seizes me all over, I am greener than grass, and it seems to me that I am a little short of dying. (I) , 2019. Spruce wood, polished steel, deformed lab glass

For when I look at you for a moment, then it is no longer possible for me to speak; my tongue has snapped, at once a subtle fire has stolen beneath my flesh, I see nothing with my eyes, my ears hum, sweat pours from me, a trembling seizes me all over, I am greener than grass, and it seems to me that I am a little short of dying. (I)
, 2019. Spruce wood, polished steel, deformed lab glass

For when I look at you for a moment, then it is no longer possible for me to speak; my tongue has snapped, at once a subtle fire has stolen beneath my flesh, I see nothing with my eyes, my ears hum, sweat pours from me, a trembling seizes me all over, I am greener than grass, and it seems to me that I am a little short of dying. (I) , 2019. Spruce wood, polished steel, deformed lab glass

For when I look at you for a moment, then it is no longer possible for me to speak; my tongue has snapped, at once a subtle fire has stolen beneath my flesh, I see nothing with my eyes, my ears hum, sweat pours from me, a trembling seizes me all over, I am greener than grass, and it seems to me that I am a little short of dying. (I)
, 2019. Spruce wood, polished steel, deformed lab glass

Fledgling, 2019 Video with sound 3:12.

Fledgling, 2019

Video with sound 3:12.

RYXPER 1126AE 02:60 , 2019 Industrial aroma diffuser mechanism, programmed at 02:60 interval, stainless steel, RYXPER 1126AE fragrance (produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc).

RYXPER 1126AE 02:60 , 2019

Industrial aroma diffuser mechanism, programmed at 02:60 interval, stainless steel, RYXPER 1126AE fragrance (produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc).

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence [exhibition view]

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence
[exhibition view]

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence [exhibition view]

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence
[exhibition view]

Conjuring, 2019. Video Triptych 1:29 (looped), meadow.

Conjuring, 2019.

Video Triptych 1:29 (looped), meadow.

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence [exhibition view]

Sunk into it, part of it / it would be like hearing the grass grow, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence
[exhibition view]